The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-26

it is now a power in the land" The
summons is returnable March p, be-
fore the United States Circuit Court at
Trenton.
The loss by the fire On the Ameri-
can cotton docks at Tampkinsyille.
Staten Island, is now estimated at
nearly 5000, 900. Three men were in
jured by falling walls. The Emery
| Opera House, in Titusyille, Penna., was
burned on the evening of the 18th
Loss about $50, 600, A fire at Port
Arthur, Manitoba, on the 18th, de-
stroyed five stores and two hotels,
causing a loss of $4,000. The furni-
ture factory of Gunther & Frank, In
Baltimore, was damaged by hre on the
10Th to the extent of 10000. The
village Of Thompson, some miles west
of Mexico, Missouri, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th.
james Mcclure was killed and
Alexander Long fatally injured by the
premature explosion of a blast IN the
| William Penn Colliery, at Shenandoah,
Pa, on the 10th.
The storm of the 18th was very
severe at Long Branch. The wind tore
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damaged several cottages in course of
construction. The high sea made in
roads in the Ocean avenue bluff there.
John Walters shot and killed his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Bryan O'Neil, at
Poughkeepsie, on the 10Th. Trouble
| had arisen in the family, which caused
| Walters to separate from his wife. At
a dance in Macon, Georgia, on the
morning of the 10Th, a fight occurred,
n which Policeman Frank Thorpe,
IN off duty, struck James Bassett a
fe full blow on the head, and then shot
and killed Thomas FarrOw. Farrow
had on a pair of brass knuckles when
killed. Mrs. Ogden, a woman of a
repute, was found dead in front of her
house, at Peoria, Illinois, on the morn
ing of the 10Th. In the house her son,
Peter, lay in a drunken stupor, and
all the furniture and fixtures were
smashed. 1t is supposed he killed his
mother in a drunken stupor..
"A stage coach which carried Sl2,-
600 express money, was attacked by
highwaymen near Craeters, Mexico, d
few days ago, but the passengers, Icing
EARNED to the teeth" drove away the
robbers
The contents of the wholesale
liquor house OF J. S. Mccormick q
| Co., In Des MONIES, were seized by
revenue officers on the Goth. Charges
of illicit compromising had been made.
| John Burke and Edward Runyon,
young men, were on the Dist COM
mitted by the U. s. Commissioner in
| Jersey City, in default of $1,000 bali,
on the charge of having robbed the
post Office at New Market. MiddleseX
county, on the LIST inst. They are also
suspected OF completely in the Bound
Brook post office.
The latest mail advices from Homo
lulu received in san Francisco gives
details of the eruption Of Mauna Loa.
1t began on January 10th, when a col
umn Of fire shot up from the south
crater. Two days afterwards earth
quake shocks kept the whole district
around the volcano in tremulous and
violent motion, and three great rivers of
molten lava broke from the mountain
and flowed towards the sea, wiping out
houses and plantations in their course.
No loss of life is reported, as the inhabi-
tants had received timely warning. The
earthquakes shook down many walls
and buildings, and on the night of jan
uary 10Th there was great fear of atidal
wave. The shocks were felt until jan
uary 26th, and q second eruption of
lava began on February 7th. On the
18th the Honolulu Bulletin announced
an outbreak of M~okuaweoweo. Smoke.
steam and lava were emitted.
"A telegram from Belvldere, New
Jersey, says a writ of error has been
denied in the case of the condemned
murderer, Titus. The Board of Par.
dons will now be asked to interfere.
New Zealand advices by mail to
January 26th report a massacre of
natives III the Kimberly District. "A
miner stole a young black, and in retail
lation the negroes killed the miner aud
wounded his two companions. The
latter escaped, secured assistance, and
pursued the blacks, and out of forty
of the latter all but n were shot
down."
"A telegram from st. Paul says the
bodies of FIVE persons-a man, woman
and three children-taken from a cave
in the Bad Lands of Dakota by a
miner, have been received in that city.
1.-THE bodies are simply dried up. are
not petrified, and are III a remarkable
state of preservation. Scientific men
who have seen them say they selong to
a race which existed two thousand
years ago." They will be sent to the
Smithsonian Institution.
Mrs. William Maxey was burned
10 death and her husband fatally burned
by the explosion of a lamp in Litch-
Geld. Illinois, on the evening of the
10th.
The Rugg block. in H%averhlll,
Massachusetts, was burned out on the
morning of the 2Ist. The principal
occupant, II. G.. Case, cut sole manu-
facturer, loses $4,000; the loss on the
building is S25 600, and other losses
swell the total to almost 500, O0O. A
fireman was injured by falling bricks.
Four hundred persons were thrown out
of employment. The Grand Opera
| House, at Columbus, Ohio, was burned
on the morning of the 2lst. Loss, $780,
600.
Much damage has been done by
recent storms at Gross Point, a wealthy
suburb of Detroit, on Lake st. Clare.
Great cakes of ice have been driven
ashore and piled along the banks for
three miles to a height OF twenty to
forty feet, wreeking boat houses and
docks. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
benjamin Lutz. aged be years,
was drowned on the 10Th by falling
from a bridge across Mill creek, in
Berks county, Penna.
Three masked robbers, on the
evening of the 18th, entered the house
of John Bortonas, who lives alone in
Centre county. Penna., and demanded
his money. lie refused to tell where
it was, and they strung him up by the
neck and then applied hot Goals to the
soles Of his feet. lie then yielded and
told them the whereabouts Of 1912,
which they secured. They again APP.
Piled hot Goals, but be protested he had
no more, and. after getting themselves
a supper, they left. BDrtonas had